Survey targets healthy workplace practices

7:38 PM,
Feb. 13, 2014

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A local accounting firm began its push for a healthier workplace by offering employees a free membership to the YMCA.

Then came Friday afternoon hikes, healthier snack options and games of wallyball.

"We're a CPA firm. We deal with deadlines and checklists and all kind of stuff like that all the time. The last thing we wanted to do with our employees is make them do something like that," said Ben Hamrick, CEO, Johnson Price Spinkle PA in Asheville. "We decided we wanted to do something, but we wanted it to be fun." ...